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cressy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɹɛsi/

Etymology

From cress + -y.

Meanings

1. Abounding in cresses.
   • Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady's-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves. 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down:
2. Resembling or characteristic of cress.
   • a slightly cressy flavor 1942, Circular, number 633, page 25:

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